Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 9, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: There is a process that threatens any successful grass root movement, of being hijacked by close but non-identical agenda. People were worried that Microsoft might try to take over Hamakor, but looking back, that was never a real threat.

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-09 Thread Barry.R
So we can discuss this matter as much as we want, but we did not give RMS this position, and we can certainly not take it away. That may be so, but what many of us want is to do is distance ourselves from RMS' behaviour which not only incorporates a partisan political attitude when it comes

Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Tom Balazs
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/why-fsf-founder-richard-stallm.php It's time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth. This time, Stallman says that he's glad Steve Jobs is gonehttp

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Stan Goodman
On Saturday 08 October 2011 15:18:44 Tom Balazs wrote: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/why-fsf-founder-richar d-stallm.php It's time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Steve G.
-stallm.php It's time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth. This time, Stallman says that he's glad Steve Jobs is gonehttp://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_2011_%28Steve_Jobs%29

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Steve G. wrote: Unfortunately being an idiot is not against the law. Hence this thread. -- Matan Ziv-Av. ma...@svgalib.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Stan Goodman
On Saturday 08 October 2011 20:46:04 Steve G. wrote: Maybe we should start a Facebook group to get rid of RMS, an open source Arab Spring or Social Justice movement... Unfortunately being an idiot is not against the law. 2011/10/8 Tom Balazs tom123onl...@gmail.com Nobody has ever

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
2011, Stan Goodman wrote: Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 23:39:18 +0200 From: Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Find Free Software a New Voice On Saturday 08 October 2011 20:46:04 Steve G. wrote: Maybe we should start a Facebook group to get rid of RMS

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 10/08/2011 11:47 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Stan, Steve, I think I mentioned once before, let's think about who *is* worthy to be the voice of Open Source rather than who who *isn't*. IMHO, RMS should be ignored at this point. He made great contributions in the past, but now it's